We are as done as we are going to be with the exterior of the house!  It’s taken way longer and way more money and we’re not even technically done, but what can I say – I’m learning that this is the nature of the beast (i.e. owning an old house and doing work yourself).

This weekend we finished painting the siding inside the porches, finished painting all the doors (front, back, and barn door), re-framed the back door, put lots of crap away AND made a first crack at leaf collection!

Here’s the back door, which we re-framed, and the barn door, which is now yellow!

Here’s the front door (open to the inside), which is also yellow.

Here’s the front of the house – we still need to get gable vents, and apparently our shape is an odd one.  So of course that’s a $300 special order.

The side of the house – the paint is so white!

What we still have left to do and will probably have to wait until the spring is the porches: painting the outside, re-screening, painting the floors.  As you can see from this picture, the little deck that the pumpkins are on is a mess of chipping paint.

We need to do this on the back porch too.  Plus, we really need to get our grass in shape.  But it will all have to wait till next year.  For now, I breathe a sigh of relief.

Last night some parents of trick or treaters told us that they’ve been watching our progress, that the house looks great, and that they are impressed with us for doing the work ourselves.  Wow!  That makes the completion feel even better!

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